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Re: ASN draft

jgs@merit.edu Wed, 08 February 1995 17:45 UTC

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From: jgs@merit.edu
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To: pst@cisco.com
Subject: Re: ASN draft
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Organization: Merit Network, Inc.
Cc: bgp@ans.net, jhawk@panix.com, tony@mci.net, bmanning@isi.edu

Paul sez:
[...]
>But seriously, I think you're in the Merrit trap.  This home AS stuff is
>a bunch of BS.  There's nothing really (right now) that says that I can't
[...]
>Why should a prefix be tied to an AS?  That's just the way Merrit organized
>things,  but I think that was one honking mistake, looking back on it now.

(I assume you mean "Merit."  As I recall, "Merrit" is a chain of gas
stations on the West Coast.)

It's a good thing you're not a historian, Paul.  Merit may deserve the
blame for many things, but inventing the Home AS notion is not one of
them.  Perhaps you were misspelling "RIPE" as "Merrit".

--John
  who isn't in the Merrit trap

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